Cambios en el paisaje del río Grande (Morelia, México) 1930-2023. Aproximación desde el Antropoceno

We analyze the changes in the landscape of the río Grande (Grande River, Michoacán, Mexico), from its contextualization in the Anthropocene. We focus on the environmental transformations of the last hundred years, recognizing three temporalities based on inflection points. First, the national water control policies of the period 1930- 1970, which involved the construction of reservoirs for the benefit of irrigation districts and power generation. Second, 1970-1990, planning and management subordinated to urban expansion. Third, 1990-2023, framed by the political discourse around sustainable development, but in which conflicts over water management increase. We resorted to a geographic approach to the landscape, emphasizing the changes derived from the alteration of land use and vegetation cover. We conducted archival work, statistical analysis, and field surveys. We concluded that, although the landscapes of the river have been transformed for centuries, it is in the last hundred years where the alterations have been radically.../...